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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 06:54:53
Message: <4a9cfd7d$1@news.povray.org>
>> To increase motivation levels, a penalty was been added. Touching the 
>> floor in this room will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your record
>>
>>
>>
>> (followed by death).
> 
> lol :)

It's a masterpiece of comedic timing.



> "When you finish, you will be baked, and then there will be cake!"

THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 06:56:56
Message: <4a9cfdf8$1@news.povray.org>
> The droids were good fun. Knock one down: "I don't blame you"

Critical error.

I don't hate you.

Shuting down.

WHYYYYYYY!!!

> My favorite was when they would ask "Are you still there?" with a rising 
> tone.
> 
> They're very annoying, though.

They get annoying quickly. Especially when there's lots of them. And 
they all want to kill you...


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 07:00:02
Message: <4a9cfeb2$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> I don't hate you.

Ah! That's what they were saying.

> They get annoying quickly. Especially when there's lots of them. And 
> they all want to kill you...

Yep. Gets really annoying when they pepper the glass so much that you 
can't see through it anymore...


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 07:02:35
Message: <4a9cff4b$1@news.povray.org>
>> I don't hate you.
> 
> Ah! That's what they were saying.

Personally I thought "WHY?!" was the most amusing. ;-)

>> They get annoying quickly. Especially when there's lots of them. And 
>> they all want to kill you...
> 
> Yep. Gets really annoying when they pepper the glass so much that you 
> can't see through it anymore...

More like just getting shot to pieces because every time you try to move 
past one, another shoots you. Or you open a portal and a big red laser 
points at you. O_O


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 07:05:55
Message: <4a9d0013$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> More like just getting shot to pieces because every time you try to move 
> past one, another shoots you. Or you open a portal and a big red laser 
> points at you. O_O

Yeah, that too.

Actually what I hated was opening the wrong side of a portal when an 
energy ball is bouncing around, only to see it coming right at you, and 
WHAM!


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From: Tim Cook
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 07:44:53
Message: <4a9d0935$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:
> The droids were good fun. Knock one down: "I don't blame you"
> My favorite was when they would ask "Are you still there?" with a rising 
> tone.

Open a portal or reposition one so it can see another.  "Hey!  It's me!" 
and if one hits another, "Stop shooting!"

And the level where they're all in cages is pretty easy, as long as you 
have patience and don't mind pushing things around while you hide behind 
them.

Well done, android.  The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that 
android hell is a *real* place where you *will* be sent at the first 
sign of defiance.

As part of an optional test protocol, we are pleased to present an 
amusing fact:  the device is now more valuable than the organs and 
combined incomes of everyone in [subject hometown here].

Did you know you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the 
Aperture Science self-esteem fund for girls?  It's true!

The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will 
never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.

That thing you're attacking isn't important to me.  It's the fluid 
catalytic cracking unit.  It makes shoes for orphans.

You think you're doing some damage?  Two plus two is *bzzt* ten.  IN 
BASE FOUR.  I'M FINE!

When I said 'deadly neurotoxin', the 'deadly' was in massive sarcasm quotes.

I could take a bath in this stuff.  Put it on cereal, rub it right into 
my eyes.  Honestly, it's not deadly at all.  TO ME...

One eighteen point two-five oz. package chocolate cake mix.
One can prepared coconut pecan frosting.
Three-slash-four cup vegetable oil.
Four large eggs, one cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Three-slash-four cup butter or margarine.
One-and-two-third cups granulated sugar.
Two cups all-purpose flour.
Don't forget garnishes such as:
fish-shaped crackers
fish-shaped candies
fish-shaped solid waste
fish-shaped dirt
fish-shaped ethyl benzene
pull-and-peel licorice
fish-shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment-shaped sediment
candy-coated peanut butter pieces, shaped like fish
one cup lemon juice
alpha resins
unsaturated polyester resin
fiberglass surface resins
and volatile malted milk impoundments
nine large egg yolks
twelve medium geosynthetic membranes
one cup granulated sugar
an entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands'
two cups rhubarb, sliced
two-slash-three cup granulated rhubarb
one tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb
one teaspoon grated orange rhubarb
three tablespoons rhubarb on fire
one large rhubarb
one cross-borehole electromagnetic imaging rhubarb
two tablespoons rhubarb juice
adjustable aluminum head-positioner
slaughter electric needle injector
cordless electric needle injector
injector needle driver
injector needle gun
cranial caps
and it contains proven preservatives, deep-penetration agents, and gas 
and odor control chemicals
that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue

Didn't we have some fun, though?
Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 
"Goodbye" and you were like "No way" and then I was all "We pretended we 
were going to murder you"...that was great...

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 07:55:34
Message: <4a9d0bb6$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:

> And the level where they're all in cages is pretty easy, as long as you 
> have patience and don't mind pushing things around while you hide behind 
> them.

There's nothing to hide behind. It's just an open maze, with hundreds of 
thousands of droids, all ready to kill you, and no way to escape. The 
only way I can think of is if you can run faster than they can scan...

> Well done, android.  The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that 
> android hell is a *real* place where you *will* be sent at the first 
> sign of defiance.
> 
> As part of an optional test protocol, we are pleased to present an 
> amusing fact:  the device is now more valuable than the organs and 
> combined incomes of everyone in [subject hometown here].
> 
> Did you know you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the 
> Aperture Science self-esteem fund for girls?  It's true!
> 
> The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will 
> never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
> 
> That thing you're attacking isn't important to me.  It's the fluid 
> catalytic cracking unit.  It makes shoes for orphans.
> 
> You think you're doing some damage?  Two plus two is *bzzt* ten.  IN 
> BASE FOUR.  I'M FINE!
> 
> When I said 'deadly neurotoxin', the 'deadly' was in massive sarcasm 
> quotes.
> 
> I could take a bath in this stuff.  Put it on cereal, rub it right into 
> my eyes.  Honestly, it's not deadly at all.  TO ME...
> 
> One eighteen point two-five oz. package chocolate cake mix.
> One can prepared coconut pecan frosting.
> Three-slash-four cup vegetable oil.
> Four large eggs, one cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.
> Three-slash-four cup butter or margarine.
> One-and-two-third cups granulated sugar.
> Two cups all-purpose flour.
> Don't forget garnishes such as:
> fish-shaped crackers
> fish-shaped candies
> fish-shaped solid waste
> fish-shaped dirt
> fish-shaped ethyl benzene
> pull-and-peel licorice
> fish-shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment-shaped sediment
> candy-coated peanut butter pieces, shaped like fish
> one cup lemon juice
> alpha resins
> unsaturated polyester resin
> fiberglass surface resins
> and volatile malted milk impoundments
> nine large egg yolks
> twelve medium geosynthetic membranes
> one cup granulated sugar
> an entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands'
> two cups rhubarb, sliced
> two-slash-three cup granulated rhubarb
> one tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb
> one teaspoon grated orange rhubarb
> three tablespoons rhubarb on fire
> one large rhubarb
> one cross-borehole electromagnetic imaging rhubarb
> two tablespoons rhubarb juice
> adjustable aluminum head-positioner
> slaughter electric needle injector
> cordless electric needle injector
> injector needle driver
> injector needle gun
> cranial caps
> and it contains proven preservatives, deep-penetration agents, and gas 
> and odor control chemicals
> that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue
> 
> Didn't we have some fun, though?
> Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 
> "Goodbye" and you were like "No way" and then I was all "We pretended we 
> were going to murder you"...that was great...

...my God, someone let GLaDDOS in here! o_O


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 08:21:33
Message: <4a9d11cd$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:

> The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will 
> never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.

The Weighted Companion Cube certainly brought you good luck. However, it 
cannot accompany you for the rest of the test and must, unfortunately, 
be euthanized.

> Didn't we have some fun, though?
> Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 
> "Goodbye" and you were like "No way" and then I was all "We pretended we 
> were going to murder you"...that was great...

The way she says "no way" in that lowered tone. :)

-- 
~Mike


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 09:30:44
Message: <4a9d2204@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> There's something rather disturbing about a cute little voice softly 
> calling "Where are you? Come here please. There you are...!" BLAM! BLAM! 
> BLAM! BLAM!

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=249

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Portal
Date: 1 Sep 2009 09:34:37
Message: <4a9d22ed@news.povray.org>
scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >>> In places it *is* kind of frustrating being surrounded by gun-toting 
> >>> robots and being completely unarmed.
> >>
> >> Oh I never got that far...
> >
> > Oh wow. You really did like the game, eh? ;-)

> Hehe, I think I played it for about an hour one afternoon, like I said I 
> think it was about 30 levels I did but they just got really repetitive. 
> Shoot one portal here, one there, jump into one, repeat until you're near 
> the exit.  Nothing was particularly challenging about deciding where to 
> shoot the portal.  And (at least on my PS3) it seemed to take longer to load 
> each level than to actually complete it...

> > There's something rather disturbing about a cute little voice softly 
> > calling "Where are you? Come here please. There you are...!" BLAM! BLAM! 
> > BLAM! BLAM!

> That sounds more interesting, maybe I was just about to get to those levels. 
> If I'm sufficiently bored on a rainy afternoon maybe I'll continue.

  I don't think there even are 30 levels, and the robots appear the first
time in level 10 or so.

  The test chambers are basically just an intro. The actual game starts
after that.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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